Oliver Stone

Reece Gilmore Dr. Kassia Waggoner Intro to Composition 21 November 2016 Oliver Stone and Gordon Gekko: Strange Bedfellows Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone in 1987, was the first of a genre of films that has since become ubiquitous in American popular culture. The movie depicts Charlie Sheen as a new Wall Street trader who, after 40 days of phone calls and a box of (illegal) Cuban cigars, buys himself an audience with charismatic trading wizard Gordon Gekko. Gekko is a master of arbitrage, a

Oliver Stone is best known from his portrayals of Vietnam in film. His movies “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July” have won him Academy Awards for best director. These movies not only depicted the violence of war, but also the cultural and psychological issues that the soldiers in these wars had to endure. The majority of his earliest and best known movies center around the Vietnam War. Oliver Stone’s experience in the military gave him a special insight that made his movies feel more authentic

In the modern world, gender doesn’t play such a big role anymore. Women work like men, men do things that are traditionally attributed to women. And yet, some things stay the same. I would like to review Oliver Stone 's film "Savages”, as an example of gender message. The main characters are two men and a woman - they live as a family. The author, in my opinion, is trying to revise the stereotype that a polyamorous relationship is exclusively a men 's prerogative. Another message in the film is about

Oliver Stone had his breakthrough in the film industry when he wrote the screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), directed by Alan Parker. The film was a hit and earned Stone his first Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a shot at directing a major studio movie, The Hand(1981). Stone's directorial debut was not a success, but he went on to write screenplays for the popular films Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Scarface(1983). Stone had a hugely successful year in 1986: He directed

The world today has a variety of problems and violence is one of the most prominent. It is seen on the front page of the newspaper and as the “Top Story” on the eleven o’clock news. Unfortunately, it is also widely used for entertainment purposes. In the New York Times a 1998 article by Faye Fiore stated: "On average last year, one act of serious brutality was found for every four minutes of entertainment." Today, violence is a major part of electronic games, television, and the film industry

medical facilities, the lack of support from the general public as well as the families of veterans when they returned home, as well as Kovic’s turn to being against the war by the end of the film. This film, which was the second of three director Oliver Stone, a Vietnam War veteran himself, and based off of the memoirs of Ron Kovic, who assisted in the writing and creation of this film, made to explore the different aspects of the conflict and bring them to the general public to learn and understand

Austriaco, Jezelle J BSBA 4-1 REACTION PAPER WALLSTREET: Money Never Sleeps "Time is the most valuable commodity."..... Right i should invest to it. When it comes to investing you need to be patient. It takes a long time to determine if a stock is good and if you are able to find the right type of stock to help you grow a solid retirement. Finding strong winners and keeping the money invested in them is the best way to make sure that there is little risk and still the potential

How far would one go to fix a mistake; to fix something that should never have happened? For Harry Finn and Annabelle Conroy, there is no threat too large to stop them from fixing their mistakes. In Stone Cold by David Baldacci, Annabelle Conroy and her father Patty hatch a plan to get revenge on the man who bereft them of the woman they both loved. On the flip side of things,Harry Finn, an ex-Navy Seal, assassinates the men of Congress who wronged him for deeming his father, Rayfield Solomon, a

motivation of one’s instigation of their actions. This applies to the intentions and, more importantly, the consequences of the characters in both the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps directed by Oliver Stone. Even though some people have honorable intentions and mean no harm, the consequences can still be disastrous. In much the same way, those with fraudulent intentions also suffer in the end. Situations like these can be accurately viewed through

Oliver Stone is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director of motion pictures and documentaries. In 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army and fought in Vietnam from September, 1967 until April 1968. Partly due to his time in Vietnam, Stone proceeded to produce five various films (JFK, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth, and Nixon) which portrayed the war in various lights, and were intended to improve the public’s knowledge as a whole from different viewpoints